Thomas Sideris

The program “Unguarded Passage” with ERT journalist Thomas Sideris presents a radio documentary focusing on the historic March to Gaza, the tragic case of the Mavi Marmara flotilla, and the 48-kilometer march to the Rafah Crossing in June 2025. The story begins on the night of 31 May 2010, ...

The episode delves into the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, drawing on the latest report from the Red Cross. Joining us live in the studio of Voice of Greece is Youssef Dorgham, Ambassador of the Palestinian Authority to Greece. He will discuss the daily struggle for survival faced by Palestinians, t...

“Unguarded Passage” presents a radio documentary exploring the current situation in the Palestinian territories, titled “Palestine in focus”.Produced in collaboration with the International Press Institute, this radio documentary uncovers the untold stories of journalists who lost their lives in Gaza. T...

 “Unguarded Passage” presents a special radio journey dedicated to José “Pepe” Mujica — the man who redefined the role of Uruguay’s president as an everyday act of solidarity, humility, and resistance. A former Tupamaros guerrilla, political prisoner for thirteen years, and a philosopher of action, M...

An untold story is brought to light for the first time in the new radio documentary of the series “Unguarded Passage”. The radio documentary, titled “My Uncle Alekos Konstantinidis”, traces the life and journey in Greece of Pontic refugee Alekos Konstantinidis, leading up to his execution in Kaisari...

The radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a special podcast featuring twenty landmark anti-fascist songs from across Europe — songs that left their mark on history and became inseparably linked to the people’s struggle against the darkness of fascism and Nazism. From the extermination camps of N...

The radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a special podcast featuring twenty landmark anti-fascist songs from across Europe — songs that left their mark on history and became inseparably linked to the people’s struggle against the darkness of fascism and Nazism. From the extermi...

Eighty years later, the radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a powerful documentary marking the day Nazism was defeated in Europe — a historic moment of anti-fascist victory over the darkest and bloodiest chapter of the 20th century. The radio documentary will aired on Friday, May 9, 2025, on Vo...

The acclaimed radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a revealing audio documentary on the assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis and the shadowy operations of the deep state behind it. Drawing from documents once sealed in the files of the State Sec...

On April 27, 1941, the Wehrmacht marched into Athens. They found a city emptied of life — streets and squares abandoned, homes tightly shuttered. It was, unmistakably, one of the first great collective acts of spontaneous resistance by the people against the invader. It begins with the unforgettable vo...

“Unguarded Passage” presents the documentary episode “From Haidari to Kaisariani: The Execution of 200 Communists on May Day 1944”. In the early hours of May 1, 1944, German military trucks transported 200 communist prisoners from the notorious Nazi detention camp in Haidari to the execu...

On Good Friday, 18 April 2025, the radio program “Unguarded Passage” presented a special tribute to the iconic folk ballad The Dead Brother’s Song (Του Νεκρού Αδελφού). The broadcast explores the song’s various versions as they appear in the oral traditions of Greece and the wider Balkan region, in a...

The radio series “Unguarded Passage” presents a radio documentary about a child who unjustly lost his life — a child who, as his teacher says in the audio document that opens the program, “Vasileios Maggos was a child who lived among us for 26 years and 65 days.” A remarkabl...

"Unguarded Passage" continues its exploration of human rights violations in Turkey, presenting the second part of its radio documentary on the political upheavals that have shaped the country over the past fifteen years. This installment focuses on three pivotal events: - The death of political prisoner...

Ten years after Turkey’s failed coup attempt, journalist Thomas Sideris unfolds all aspects of the country’s political landscape: from mass purges in the Turkish security forces and military, the dismissal of leftist and Kurdish mayors, to the widespread arrests of journalists and political figures, inc...

On Friday, March 21 (World Poetry Day) Thomas Sideris presents a two-part tribute to two of the most significant poets of the interwar period, Maria Polydouri and Anna Akhmatova, as part of the radio series “Unguarded Passage” The first part, titled “Life, how did you surrender me with a kiss...

A historian and a bottle of ouzo at a family table in Switzerland. The A. Bourla Brothers Distillery on Victor Hugo Street 3 in Thessaloniki. A two-year-old girl suddenly left alone in her home in Athens when Greek policemen, collaborators of the Nazis, arrest her mother. A family, that of Stavros Ch....

The radio series “Unguarded Passage” honors International Women’s Day with a special episode dedicated to an exceptional woman, Maria Roussou, director of the Public Library of Lefkada. Her journey led her from East to West, as she moved from Samos to Lefkada in the early 1990s. Tirel...